. History of the colored race in America : containing also their ancient and modern life in Africa ... the origin and development of slavery in the Old World, and its introduction on the American continent : the slave trade : slavery ... : the Civil War, emancipation, education and advancement of the colored race ... . lled the Slaughter Pen,or Bloody Angle. A momentary gleam of sunshine through the gloom of thesky seemed to add a new horror to the scene. Hundreds of Con-federates, dead or dying, lay piled over one another in thosepits. The fallen lay three or four feet deep in some places,and
. History of the colored race in America : containing also their ancient and modern life in Africa ... the origin and development of slavery in the Old World, and its introduction on the American continent : the slave trade : slavery ... : the Civil War, emancipation, education and advancement of the colored race ... . lled the Slaughter Pen,or Bloody Angle. A momentary gleam of sunshine through the gloom of thesky seemed to add a new horror to the scene. Hundreds of Con-federates, dead or dying, lay piled over one another in thosepits. The fallen lay three or four feet deep in some places,and with but few exceptions, they were shot in and about thehead. Arms, accouterments, ammunition, cannon, shot andshell, and broken foliage were strewn about. With much labora detail of Union soldiers buried the Confederate dead by sim-ply turning the captured breastworks upon them. Thus hadthese unfortunate victims unwittingly dug their own Confederate, General McGowan, oflacially said: Thetrenches on the right in the Bloody Angle ran with blood, andhad to be cleared of the dead bodies more than once. Thetrenches were really filled with muddy water. It was the mosthorrible battle scene ever witnessed, only equalled, perhaps, inthe dead and dying that appeared, after Napoleons famouscharge at THE CIVIL WAR. 325 The Confederate defenses at this point were elaborately-constructed with heavy timber, banked with earth to the heightof about four feet. Above this was placed what is known as ahead log, raised just high enough to enable a rifle to beinserted between it and the lower work. Pointed pine and pinoak formed an abatis, in front of which was a deep ran along the inside ledges of these works, a seriesof square pits, and along their flank traverses, which extendedto the rear. Upon these shelves large quantities of buck, andball, and Minnie cartridges were piled ready for use, and theguns of the dead were still pointing through the apertures, ju
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